"The Intergalactic Nemesis: Live-Action graphic Novel," a theatrical mash-up of graphic novels, theater and a radio drama, will play the Belding Theater at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford Jan. 21 at 8 p.m.

Three actors voice dozens of characters while a sound effects master provide the aural landscape. A keyboardist performs the music while a two-story high screen projects more than 1,250 full-color, hand-drawn, hi-res comic book images. Jason Neulander is project creator.

The story centers of reporter Molly Sloan, her intrepid assistant Timmy Mendez and a mysterious librarian named Ben Wilcott "as they face the most serious threat Earth has ever known: an impending invasion of sludge monsters from the planet Zygon."

"Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation" headed into the weekend with expectations of a $40-million opening in the U.S. and Canada, but Paramount Pictures on Sunday reported that its Tom Cruise film actually brought in an estimated $56 million.

A judge said Thursday he believes a group of elderly nuns improperly sold their hilltop convent to a businesswoman but delayed any efforts by church officials to finalize a competing sale to pop singer Katy Perry.